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Residents and parents object to proposed bylaws they say would curtail trustees’ access to district records
Summary
Public commenters at a Rochester Community School District board meeting argued that proposed handbook and bylaw edits would consolidate information requests through the board president, restrict individual trustees’ ability to obtain documents, repeat legal vulnerabilities from past litigation, and erode public trust.
Public commenters at a Rochester Community School District Board of Education meeting on Oct. 1 criticized proposed updates to the board handbook and bylaws that they said would restrict individual trustees’ access to district documents and compound the district’s legal exposure.
Several speakers tied the changes to recent actions against a trustee and said the edits — brought forward on the agenda as item 8.5 by Trustee Gupta — would shift requests for existing documents away from individual trustees and require requests to be made through the full board or routed to the board president rather than…
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